CIS 171 Linux Final || QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!
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Which of the following would be a term applicable to an e-mail program on a workstation that is used to view email? correct answers MUA
What piece of software tells the operating system how to use a specific hardware device? correct answers Device driver
Which of the following types of encryp...
CIS 171 Linux Final || QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT!!
Which of the following would be a term applicable to an e-mail program on a workstation
that is used to view email? correct answers MUA
What piece of software tells the operating system how to use a specific hardware device?
correct answers Device driver
Which of the following types of encryption uses a pair of keys known as a public and
private? correct answers Asymmetric
What service provides a method for the efficient transfer of files over the Internet? correct
answers FTP
When viewing the version number for a Linux kernel, what number indicates the stability of
the kernel? correct answers Minor number
Which of the following are true of the echo command? correct answers All of the other
options are true.
The apropos list command produces the same results as which command below? correct
answers man -k list
When using command-line terminal, specific letters that start with a dash ("-") and appear
after command names are considered to be: correct answers Options
The Linux kernel exists as a file named: correct answers vmlinuz
Wayne is using the command line and is in his home directory. Which of the following will
display a list of all files and their sizes from his home directory? (Choose two.) correct
answers ls -al ~
ls -al /home/wayne
Select the regular expression metacharacter that matches 0 or more occurrences of the
previous character. correct answers *
Select the command that can be used to provide a long listing for each file in a directory:
correct answers ls -l
If enough unique letters of a directory name have been typed, what key can be pressed to
activate the BASH shell's completion feature? correct answers Tab
Which of the following key combinations, commonly used in the vi editor command mode,
displays current line statistics? correct answers Crl+g
At the vi command mode prompt, what key combination will force a quit from the vi editor
without saving changes? correct answers :q!
, Which of the following umask settings will result in new files receiving the default
permissions -rw-------? correct answers 0177
Which of the following options will change the ownership of files and directories recursively
within a directory? (Choose all that apply.) correct answers --recursive
-R
Which of the following commands can be used to recursively search through the directory
tree in search of a file that meets a set of given criteria instead of using an indexed database?
correct answers find
Jean installs a distribution of Linux on a workstation and attempts to run the locate command
to find a certain file. Instead of returning the results she expected, an error message is
displayed that it cannot find the mlocate.db file in its default location. Which of the following
commands should Jean run in an attempt to resolve this problem? correct answers updatedb
Lynn runs the locate command and the results include many files from a directory that she
doesn't want to include in her search. Which of the following files could Lynn modify so that
the locate command no longer includes those results? correct answers /etc/updatedb.conf
Clint has run the command parted /dev/sdb and wants to display a list of the existing
partitions that exist on that drive. Which of the following commands can he use to display the
existing partitions? correct answers print
Which of the following commands can be used to show the block devices, including their
major and minor numbers, on a system which are located in the /sys/block directory? correct
answers lsblk
Archie wants to optimize an XFS filesystem and minimize the chance of future corruption.
Which of the following commands will compact or otherwise improve the layout of the
contiguous blocks of file data for an XFS filesystem? correct answers xfs_fsr
Which of the following commands can be used to create and activate a swap partition on a
Linux system? (Each answer represents part of the whole.) correct answers swapon /dev/sda6
mkswap /dev/sda6
Elijah is done working with an external USB hard drive and wants to properly disconnect it.
Which of the following commands should he use before unplugging the USB cable? correct
answers umount
Which of the following commands can be used to display general hardware information for
the entire system? correct answers lshw
In Fedora 20, what journaling database system has replaced the logging system used to record
the messages normally stored within the boot.log, messages, and syslog files? correct answers
journald
What file in the /proc directory contains a list of memory address ranges reserved for device
use? correct answers ioports
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